Hi everyone! I had a wonderful weekend and I am still feeling amazing! I took the Kids and Maximus to the cider mill and we walked for two miles. The weather this time of year is gorgeous. I love it. We finished off the trip with doughnuts and cider.

Nothing exciting this week. Just grocery shopping today and preparing for Thanksgiving... I'm not sure what I am making yet.

I hope everyone has a low pain week. Happy Veteran's day to all the soilders here at HW!

I've actually had a very low-pain week and will see if it continues. If so, I'll post about its possible cause.

My publisher sent me about 20 copies of my book, and I've been writing brief notes on the inside covers then mailing them off to the various people I thank in the preface... as well as hitting a few up to write reviews :) Other than that, I didn't get much done, mostly wasting time shopping for a build-your-own AR-15 Kit... a somewhat cheaper way to get this new toy. C4-T4 Scoliosis (disk degeneration, stenosis, narrowed neuroforamen, bone spurs), RT hip and SI joint damage from car accident in 2004. Also, supraventricular tacycardia and mitral valve prolapse.Time Release: Tramadol ER 300mg. For BT: Tramadol IR 50mg (morning), Oxycodone 5-7.5mg (afternoon-evening). Sleep: .25-.5mg xanax. Verapamil 240mg SR (for tachycardia).

Cognito, Please post a link to amazon or wherever your book will be sold... I'd love to get a copy! I think that's awesome!Chronic Pain Warrior since 2007Diagnosed in 2007 - Chronic Pelvic Pain and Stage 3 EndometriosisPM Patient since 2009

My daily Goal - to make at least one person smile a day. Smiles are contagious and create a ripple effect... that one smile may lead to a miracle! :0)

Hi everyone My weekend was spent with it raining Saturday and it's raining again tonight. Needless to say, my back isn't liking it at all. I'm hurting so bad.

I have an appointment to get my blood drawn Wednesday and an appointment Thursday to get a mammogram. I'm a little nervous about it.

I hope everyone is having a low pain evening.

love and hugsLorettaDx: osteoarthritis, bursitis in left hip, Osteoarthrits in right hip, compression fracture in thoracic spine due to falling on frozen ground March 2001 , ddd, spinal stenosis, bone spurs, osteoarthritis in spine, osteoarthritis in both knees

Well my sister took me out to lunch today, and when we got there, they asked if either one of us were Veterans I told them I was retired Air Force well she gave me a sticker and thanked me for my service, and then when ordering my meal, they told me my lunch was free, as today all Vets are given free lunches, I had deep fried shrimp with deep fried battered cod pieces and fries, and a nice house salad and peach pie. So my sister got off easy LOL

Anyway my unpacking and moving into my house house is shaping up, got my leather recliner chair and sofa delivered last week and have my master bedroom and kitchen and dining room and living room all set up and done. Now the other two bedrooms, one will be a computer/exercise room and the other a guest bedroom for if and when my daughters come to visit. Ha. and then finish the garage and then I should be pretty well settled in.

I hope that once I get everything unpacked and put away that my back settles down, and the pain lessens a bit! Lately the pain around my waist and then the sciatic pain in my hips and down my legs have been really bad. And of course the pain is always worse at night when your trying to sleep. It gets to be like a vicious circle, trying to get enough sleep!

Sorry I am late to the party to post on the Monday check-in! I routinely get on the computer between 5 and 8 am. The check-in gets posted later in the day, so I normally post on it on Tuesdays. Once I get done reading a couple of different message board sites, I am done for the day on the computer and off to do different things.

The weekend for us brought some cold temperatures. My body doesn't seem to be responding to the cold very well. In the past couple of months, I have gained weight and gotten less active because of the increased pain from the cold temps. I really don't like this, but being in Ohio - the weather is very unpredictable! I have never lived outside of Ohio, it would be really strange to be in another state. Other than the increased pain, everything else seems to be going okay.

This week, I have appointments scheduled on Wednesday for a new health clinic sponsored by my pain doctor. She and a few other doctors all treat the same patients with the same lung disease - Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome. This is actually a fancy name for graft-vs.-host disease located in the lungs. When I got this diagnosis, it scared the heck out of me and I stuck my head in the sand and didn't want to face it. So - for a year - the only doctor I saw was my PM specialist. A few months ago, I decided that I really needed to face this problem and figure out how to proceed with treatment. When I went to see my lung and PM specialist (appointments were in the same week), they told me about this special clinic that they are having on Wednesdays. Every Wednesday, they only see the patients with this disease. There are several different doctors that are available to treat us, this week, I am scheduled to see the Hematologist/Oncologist, Pain specialist, and Pulmonary specialist. Hopefully I will find out more about this disease and what it means for my health in the future. The information I have read about it on the internet is very scary. So I will be spending my entire day on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio - sound like fun?? LOL!

Hey you guys.....My weekend was really good...Saturday spent nice day with hubby, then early Sunday morning I drove 450 miles to Georgia to see my grandson ....(I drive up every 4-6 weeks).

He's almost 17 months old, and has to have tubes put in his ears on Thursday as he keeps getting ear infections....so I'll be helping out.

Fibro is getting worse, and the arthritis in my hands seems to be progressing rapidly which is kind of alarming. Snaps on toddler clothes are especially challenging.

Next week I see my PM doc, and have to tell him my pharmacy will no longer fill my usual monthly amount of Percocets (150) which is 5/day. I don't know how I'm going to function on just 4 a day....I often wake up during the night from pain now..... so I'm getting anxious about talking to him.

Im doing fairly well, actually much better then I expected and I believe as long as we can find something to control my pain issues as much as possible this has been the best thing I could have done.

No appointments for me but my teen has several this week and that means I go to. We are a bit miffed at Medicaid, she's not had but a tiny piece of her front tooth since she fell and broke it at 8. The dentist at home molded a huge filling to remake the tooth, KY medicaid didn't pay for crowns ever for any reason so the past 6 months or so this tooth's become dark and looked rotted.

The Florida medicaid pays for crowns in kids with good reasons to. She's really self conscious about this and I dont have $800 to crown it and medicaid turned us down last week, yesterday the dentist made her a prosthetic cap and that's also not covered, the dentist absorbed the cost! I was stunned! And thankful!!

She took actual pictures of the tooth, explained how this effected a 15 yr old girl and resubmitted the request for the crown!

So many times we hear about how Drs only care about the money and not us as people and I wanted to share this with you guys! It renewed my faith somewhat in Drs, dentists, and the medical field.

Hope everyone has a great week!VickieChronic pain moderator "At the end of the day all you need is HOPE&STRENGTH! **Hope that it'll get better,****Strength to hold on until it does**